New Posts For Thread: Anyone else been effectively banned by IG yesterday?https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterdayI notice that there's a lot less bot activity this morning.Contrarian, Getting better and other seniors:I stopped trading on here in 2005 when the boots started their dominance which eliminated most of the profits made from wrong pricing on the site.I have visited the site 5-6 times a year afterwards, and nohttps://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=433618857#433618857Contrarian, Getting better and other seniors:I stopped trading on here in 2005 when the boots started their dominance which eliminated most of the profits made from wrong pricing on the site.I have visited the site 5-6 times a year afterwards, and noSat, 15 May 2010 07:15:24 -0500Cheers Subbuteohttps://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044414#426044414Cheers SubbuteoFri, 26 Mar 2010 10:10:05 -0500I agree GB - I think the hourlies were much better. Unfortunately people seem to be attracted to the shorter time periods, and there is only room for one time period to dominate. At the moment, the 20 min markets have around £10-15k matched each, buhttps://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044410#426044410I agree GB - I think the hourlies were much better. Unfortunately people seem to be attracted to the shorter time periods, and there is only room for one time period to dominate. At the moment, the 20 min markets have around £10-15k matched each, buFri, 26 Mar 2010 10:09:01 -0500oops that was a reply to 'did nutter punter/northern trader and surfer dude leave the site altogether contrarion?'https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044406#426044406oops that was a reply to 'did nutter punter/northern trader and surfer dude leave the site altogether contrarion?'Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:06:56 -0500They are still around but betting on other sports. The financials was just ridiculously hard at the end so they moved to a softer option.https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044402#426044402They are still around but betting on other sports. The financials was just ridiculously hard at the end so they moved to a softer option.Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:06:26 -0500how much is trading on the 20 minutes these dayshttps://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044398#426044398how much is trading on the 20 minutes these daysFri, 26 Mar 2010 10:04:45 -0500It is a long time since I played the financials. I think I was the first to use a bot on them. Then as people became better at pricing it seemed to become an arms race for those with the quickest feeds.Betting whether a market goes up or down in an hhttps://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044394#426044394It is a long time since I played the financials. I think I was the first to use a bot on them. Then as people became better at pricing it seemed to become an arms race for those with the quickest feeds.Betting whether a market goes up or down in an hFri, 26 Mar 2010 09:49:18 -0500Thanks for the voluminous replies guys.I expect I'll have to spend the weekend sorting through them.https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044390#426044390Thanks for the voluminous replies guys.I expect I'll have to spend the weekend sorting through them.Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:07:27 -0500Hi Buzzer,I think they're still around, but I'm not sure. All I know is that they, like me, found it harder a couple of years ago when IG started acting as market makers on here. They (IG) obviously couldn't make it pay, so gave up the MMing.https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044378#426044378Hi Buzzer,I think they're still around, but I'm not sure. All I know is that they, like me, found it harder a couple of years ago when IG started acting as market makers on here. They (IG) obviously couldn't make it pay, so gave up the MMing.Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:04:01 -0500did nutter punter/northern trader and surfer dude leave the site altogether contrarion?https://community.betfair.com/tradefair__financials/go/thread/view/94198/23729254/anyone-else-been-effectively-banned-by-ig-yesterday?post_id=426044374#426044374did nutter punter/northern trader and surfer dude leave the site altogether contrarion?Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:00:07 -0500